Paradigm Debates in Curriculum and Supervision: Modern and Postmodern Perspectives - Couverture rigide

Behar-Horenstein, Linda; Glanz, Jeffrey

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0897896246 ISBN 13 : 9780897896245

Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 2000

Synopsis

Paradigm debates in the educational research community are a frequent if not common occurrence. How do paradigm debates in other educational fields, such as curriculum and supervision, shape educators' understanding and practice? In this volume, it is suggested that educators' adherence to particular views of curriculum and supervision is influential in guiding their beliefs and subsequent actions. For example, a widely accepted belief is that if an individual adopts a mechanistic view of the curriculum, then s/he is likely to deliver a curriculum grounded in pre-established objectives and evaluate student achievement in relationship to formulated objectives. Postmodernists contend that such educators are bound by rigid bifurcation and a constrictive linear logic. In supervision, educational leaders who favor leadership styles comprised by autocratic behaviors, tend to create school climates that favor a top-down approach to human relationships. Autocratic leaders rely on hierarchical organizational structures and styles that seek to instill compliance and subordinance. Yet prospective administrators who want concrete proposals put in practice find modern perspectives of supervision helpful. In contrast, postmodern supervisors allege that such leaders disallow the emergence of relevant and authentic relationships that might occur when conventional hierarchical structures are diminished and open lines of communication between teachers, students, administrators become normative.

The chapters in this book present an in-depth analysis of how an individual's predisposition towards modern and postmodern views of curriculum and supervision are likely to influence: (1) curriculum development, (2) teaching styles, (3) leadership styles, (4) teacher and student evaluation, and (5) the missions intrinsic to the creation of professional preparation programs that serve to promulgate existing practice or create a new order of teachers and administrator.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

JEFFREY GLANZ is Associate Professor in the Dept. of Instruction, Curriculum, and Administration at Kean University, NJ./e

LINDA S. BEHAR-HORENSTEIN is Associate Professor in the Dept. of Educational Leadership at the University of Florida, Gainesville./e

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Praeger Publishers Inc
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0897896246
• ISBN 13: 9780897896245
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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